Job Description

Redefine your personal best

Have you ever thought about joining a Graduate Development Programme where you are part of a global community of 26,000 driven, passionate, and smart professionals?

Our accredited Professional Development Programme sets the standard for training and progression. You\'ll have a chance to grow and develop as a future leader and innovator at one of the world\'s most sustainable corporations that is consistently at the forefront of planning, design and delivery of infrastructure and development in the UK.

Start your journey with us, a top tier global consultancy. Redefine your personal best.

The Opportunity

You will be based in our Manchester office, part of our wider Northern planning team. You will gain client facing experience from an early stage and benefit from outstanding professional development opportunities in an innovative and exciting multi-disciplinary community.

.As a Graduate Planner, you will develop your planning knowledge and skills by supporting the wider team on a range of projects. You will build close working relationships with a variety of clients including local authorities, property developers and private landowners.

Assisting with technical input into a broad variety of projects, your duties could include:

Appraising sites to determine their suitability for proposed developments.

Assisting in the preparation and submission of planning applications and monitoring the progress of applications post-submission.

Liaising with and seeking advice from other technical disciplines such as transport, acoustics, and ecology.

Demonstrating that a proposed development is policy compliant / researching whether a proposal could benefit from permitted development rights.

Working on evidence-based studies such as retail and leisure studies.

Developing strategies for securing planning permission and drafting advice notes for clients.

Undertaking site assessments as part of Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessments and Sequential Assessments.

Assisting colleagues with planning enquiries from other technical disciplines.

About you

You have a desire to learn and you have a passion for town planning and shaping the built environment.

You have strong organisational and communication skills, both spoken and written. You will be a critical thinker with an eye for detail and a desire to collaborate and build your career within a leading multi-disciplinary environment.

The skills and experience we look for in our graduates:

You will have achieved an Honours degree in Planning or related discipline (RTPI accredited)

Any relevant work experience in the development industry across public and/or private sectors would be beneficial but not essential.

You must be eligible to live and work in the UK at the time you start employment.

Your application journey

There is no closing date on this vacancy. Recruitment is ongoing. We recommend applying as soon as possible as adverts may close if we have sufficient applicants.

Our graduate application process is as follows:

Step 1 . Online Application

Step 2 . Online Video Interview and Aptitude Tests

Step 3 . Face to Face Interview

Step 4 . Offer

For further details on our application process, please visit Graduate Application FAQ (stantec.com)

Reasonable adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

Please contact a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, the Stantec community unites approximately 26,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our client\'s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insight.

We deal with today\'s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please got to:

Inclusion & Diversity (stantec.com)

Land Aid

Stantec has partnered with property sector charity LandAid as one of its corporate partners to join its mission to end youth homelessness.

In 2019/20, an estimated 120,000 young people asked for help from their local council because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness.

It\'s a problem that LandAid are here to help tackle.

As the Property Industry Charity, LandAid unite over 200 organisations from across the sector, working together to bring an end to youth homelessness.

As a Charitable Trust, they distribute funding to frontline charities supporting the young and homeless - and primarily fund capital projects, such as renovating homes and building bedspaces.

We have seen the incredible impact that can happen when the industry unites and so Stantec are proud to be working alongside LandAid this year.

Together, we can end youth homelessness.

To find out more about LandAid and the amazing work they\'re doing please visit www.landaid.org

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